Watch The Sun's new TV Ad starring Terry Venables singing Elvis's 'If I can dream' and dreaming of England winning the World Cup 2010, accompanied by Ian Wright and Harry Redknapp. It's only April but the hype machine in England is already kicking in to get England supporters, players and officials thinking and dreaming that […]

"NINO, NINO, NINO!" chanted Los Chicharreros in the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López. When shouted aloud, the chant sounded like an onrushing ambulance through a traffic-jammed street, and for Getafe, who fell victim to the brilliance of Nino, they needed the assistance of EMT workers. After a 0-0 draw at home to Real Valladolid last Saturday, […]

Tuesday, April 20th 2:00PM EDT, 11:00AM PDT Guests: Geoff Reid Philadelphia Union Supporter Warren Jones Houston Dynamo Supporter Hank Alexander New England Revolution Supporter NASL Segment Re-Capping RBNY's 2-1 Comeback Victory against FC Dallas

The Week 4 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 4 29 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 15,619 4 17,149 18,445 22 2007 15,336 -1.81% 8 15,096 -11.97% 15,828 -14.19% 26 2008 15,896 3.66% 7 15,086 -0.06% 16,410 3.68% 28 2009 17,258 8.57% 7 15,314 1.51% 15,314 -6.68% […]

Last Saturday's telecast of El Clásico between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu was the highest-rated and most-watched program on Spanish-language cable television this year. El Clásico was seen on ESPN Deportes by an average of 466,000 Hispanic homes and 783,000 Hispanic viewers. As for the normal La Liga matches shown […]

La Liga leaders Barcelona will travel to Milan to take on Inter in the highly anticipated clash between two of the best teams left in the European competitions. The current champions Barca rely heavily on midfield schemer Xavi Hernandez and superstar Lionel Messi while Inter will be attempting to reach the final in Madrid to […]

Los Angeles remains unscathed through four weeks of Major League Soccer action, getting two more goals from Edson Buddle to sit atop the conference in league, twelve points through four matches. In this edition of this Major League Soccer Talk podcast, Daniel Feuerstein and myself review that headlining match – Los Angeles and Real Salt […]

The races for first and fourth places in the English Premier League took unexpected turns this weekend. On this episode of the EPL Talk podcast, myself, Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer reconvene to discuss the weekend that was in the EPL, moving from Manchester's Derby to Chelsea's disappointment at White Hart Lane, back to Wigan […]

Roma were able to fight back and beat their city rivals Lazio after trailing 1-0 at half-time. There were major events during the match starting with the missed penalty by Lazio and then the two surprising yet key substitutions made by Claudio Ranieri. The former Juventus boss removed both of his stars Francesco Totti and […]

Los Galacticos were able to defeat Valencia 2-0 courtesy of their two top scorers Gonzalo Higuain and Cristiano Ronaldo. Real Madrid have been heavily dependent on the duo to deliver the goals and achieve victories. When the two are having a relatively subdued match, Real tend to struggle as witnessed against Barcelona. With the win […]

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres will undergo surgery tonight to repair torn cartilage in his right knee. The recovery time is estimated around six weeks if there are no complications during surgery or rehabilitation. This means the Spaniard will miss the rest of the Premier League and Europa League season and not will return until Spain's […]

Incredulous. This is the emotion Arsene Wenger must be feeling after seeing his team go from being two goals up to a Wigan side battling for survival at the bottom of the Premier League, to losing the game three goals to two. I don't believe that Wigan pulled off this comeback because they are the […]

ESPN The Magazine recently announced the chance of a lifetime contest that will award one lucky winner (and a guest) a week long dream trip to South Africa for this summer's World Cup finals. Wanna see Rooney bang home a brace against Tim Howard and the United States? Maybe a Donovan penalty will see the […]

It's an unbelievable weekend in the Premier League. Manchester United grab an injury winner against City to keep them in the race. Tottenham Hotspur deservedly beat Chelsea and opened the Premier League title race wide open. And then on Sunday, everyone expected Arsenal to win the match against Wigan — especially after the Gunners were […]

Well I got a bit of a surprise today. Yesterday, looking on sky bet at fixtures, I saw the steel city derby, Sheffield Wednesday V Sheffield United, was a Sunday early kick-off. I know this commonly happens for big derbies on police advice, but naturally seeing it was on a Sunday and an early kick […]